Sexual Violence in Kenya Continues to Escalate

Sexual violence continues to rise amidst post-election clashes in Kenya. The Nairobi Women's hospital, one of the country�s leading treatment centers for rape and sexual violence, has noted that the number of rape cases have doubled since the beginning of the month, reports BBC News.

Healthcare workers had previously warned that women and children were being targeted within days of violence erupting following the country�s� national elections, the UN News Service reports. According to Women�s eNews, out of the quarter-million people who have been displaced by the civil instability, approximately 85 percent are women and children.

3/25/2015 Afghan Woman Beaten to Death for Burning Koran - A 27-year-old woman ‎who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside of a riverside shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan was brutally beaten and burned alive on Thursday.
Shocking videos quickly spread on social media showing crowds of men surrounded by hundreds of onlookers assaulting the 27-year-old Farkhunda with bricks and sticks and repeatedly kicking her. . . .